Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-22
DUYAL COUNTY.
some Ides How the Mexican Farms-Ih'
Wool Season, but Money Scarce.

some Idea How the Mexican Farms-1hc
Wool Season, but Money Scarce.
correspondence of the Gazette.
SAN DIEGO, TEX, May 1s.-The wool sea-
son which is now we'll advanced. and really
in this section may be SAID to be nearly
over with, caused business to brighten NJ
3 e tie snd made times somewhat livelieI
than they have been, though / cannot say
we are having flush times in our Getty in
the woods" Money has been so very
scarce that what has been received IN pay
yuept of the wool clips sold here las been
absorbed almost, If not quite, in the set
Element OF old and outstanding accounts.
There has been up to this time consld-
cradle amount of wool sold this season,
Mr.. Laing of Collins, in Nueces county,
being the largest buyer, and Messrs.
Hirsch, Murphy & Gussett of Corpus
Christi the next heaviest purchasers in
our markets. The prices of the better
ouslities range from about 15 to IL cents.
There are still good many clips to come
in, however, and the buyers are active.
We have had some good, refreshing
showers during the last few days, though
no heavy, soaking rains 10 fill our water
ing places and tanks, such as we really
very much need. Yet these showers have
done g great deal of good, and the grass
a springing up fresh and green. All
classes of stock are looking sleek and
fine. and ere improving in condition
dsilv. This is good growing weather,
sud excellent crops of corn and other
cereals might be made if we only had
GOOD farmers amongst US; but oh, how
few there are in this county! If the one
horse farmer could see our msizals, corn
fe-d s. he would gro6n in spirit to see as
rich valleys as ever a crow few over so
ng5lv euitivated-In the most of them the
rows not more than from twenty inches
60 TWO feet apart, and the corn planted so
-1.ck that person could not possibly get
through p. without breaking the stalks, so
--s they are actually choked and kept
from growing, and yet they expect
-gz make good crop Of corn.
Tie most singular thing is that owing TO
Tie nstural strength and richness Of the
soil. -lev do, in good seasons, make some
corn and plenty of nubbins, probably a
lclIe more than half as much as they
would make if they plowed the land
properly and at the right time, (Which
they never do) and planted their corn in
VOWS 3 reasonable distance apart, that
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corn can be made with such a miserable
pretense at cultivation, what would the
same fields produce If planted and tend
III properly? Duval county has no great
Il or more urgent want than that OF 6
few farmers TO develop her magnificent
resources. I could give you an amusing
description Of the so-csIIed aldeano or
farmer here who, with 3 crooked stick
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la diglihes by the name of pl0w, goes
into MS field and scratches over the sur
tsGe where 1t is not very hard) to the !
depth of two or three inches, then he |
puts in the corn ct from four to five |
1-e28ths Of his plOW apart. As |
the pl0w is not over four or |
scarcely ever more than tWeuty-four |
inches apart and as straight-weu as en- /
"0.d Virginia wOTm-feuce," but think |
this VIII give you some idea OF our Next |
can farmers. There are some few, how |
ever, who are beginning to use the |
Gr.1gO's plow, but there are not many, |
sli then it takes two men and small |
gy to guide the oxen or horse, and hold |
the pl0W.
very sad accident occurred about |
fifteen leagues south of Pena Station on
the l7th. Norman LiGwell, young man
sem twenty-five or twenty-'hree years
old IN running bis horse sGd in the act of
.G.Foiug smother, was thrown violently toy
T. ground, the animal he was riding4s
s-ing Oh him. He never spoke efteFe
wards and lied on the train while sSing b
taken 20 Corpus Christi, where his mother1i
gEd sister reside. His TWO brothers wesSS
DC tae cars with him, but his injuries
7'-r. @2rta- and nothing could ssBs'his
rss Ute Re wss much loFeus for his
mans 81 and sterling qualittes